Joshua Evans (September 23, 1731 – July 6, 1798) was an American

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minister, journalist, and abolitionist. He was born to Thomas Evans and Rebecca Owen in Evesham Township in

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. Joshua Evans and Priscilla Collins, daughter of John Collins and Elizabeth Moore, were married at Haddonfield Monthly Meeting on November 2, 1753. Evans, after experiencing a religious conversion about the year 1754, devoted his life to sharing his interpretation of the gospel. He practiced a simple ministry and an ascetic and pious life style, and was a vegetarian. In 1759, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting acknowledged him as a minister. Evans was an abolitionist and a passionate supporter of Quaker plainness and the Peace Testimony and war tax resistance.Gross, David M. ''American Quaker War Tax Resistance'' (2008) pp. 90-91, 93, 201-202 Returning to New Jersey from a journey through the South, where he strongly condemned slavery, Joshua Evans died in 1798. Historians at Friends Historical Library of

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have transcribed his papers with the intention of displaying them on the Internet.

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External links

Joshua Evans Papers at Swarthmore College
Includes biographical information on Joshua Evans.

Includes biographical information on Joshua Evans.
Joshua Evans’s writings on war tax resistance
{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Joshua 1731 births 1798 deaths American Quakers American people of Welsh descent American abolitionists American tax resisters People from Evesham Township, New Jersey People from Burlington County, New Jersey Quaker ministers 18th-century Quakers People from colonial New Jersey 18th-century American people Quaker abolitionists